TechCrunch Has Acquired F**kedCompany.com — Tomorrow we will announce that we have acquired Philip "Pud" Kaplan's F**kedCompany.com in a stock for assets transaction. The basic details of the transaction are included in a press release that will go out around 9 pm PST tonight, and Pud has also mentioned this on his personal blog.

Time to buy — Mike Arrington announces that TechCrunch is acquiring F**kedCompany, doubling his readership and covering the decline of Web 2.0 companies as fully as they cover the incline. — My own two cents, when thinking about declining tech markets, something I've seen four or five times …

TechCrunch to announce it has acquired F**kedCompany.com — Mike Arrington has published a blog post saying tommorow he'll be announcing that TechCrunch has acquired the iconic Dot Com crash website F***ed Company - launched in 2000 to chronicle the failure of troubled companies that were started during the boom.

Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct — Before I start, I should disclose that in addition to being an author and a conference presenter for O'Reilly, Kathy Sierra is a friend, and I've been talking with her about the situation referred to in this post since I first became aware of it last weekend.

It's all about Control — I did not take the break I thought about, primarily because I was still involved with some communications. I also found myself somewhat obsessed with last week's happenings. — In the end, what saddened me the most about last week wasn't about people so much as it was about honesty.

Is Technorati Going After Spam Blogs? — The issue of spam blogs, or "splogs" is a big one. As blog software becomes ever more easy to use, it's no surprise that robots and scripts have been built to make fake blogs, and are engineered to look very real, as the splogs usurp other's content …

Top 5 Startup Focused Blogs — I now have been covering startups since a month. Its a hard and daunting task with so many startups poping up every day from all corners of the world. I thought it would be worth while to cover other such blogs, see how they are doing and if they have a special angle to it.

Magnify.net Different Than The Rest Of The Video Crowd — Magnify.net is a new video startup that is different from the rest of the crowd. Unlike YouTube and dozens of others, it isn't focused on building a portal around user-uploaded videos. Instead, they are allowing website publishers …

Thinking About Online Photo Services — I woke up this morning thinking about online photo services. Probably because of my friend David Kirkpatrick's column this week on Photobucket. David points out how huge Photobucket has become by riding on the coattails of the social networking boom.

Xcerion makes Internet OS real — Internet OS sector seems to be getting increasingly crowded. Start-ups such as YouOS, EyeOS are vying for mindshare with Internet giants like Google. The seriousness of market is reflected by the fact that earlier this month, Microsoft set up an all-star group to tackle the Cloud OS opportunities.

Spam experts at MIT lift curtain on search — CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—If there is a solution to search engine spam, no one's going to reveal it, according to experts at the MIT Spam Conference 2007 on Friday. — Nothing is going to change while there is money to be made off things like AdSense …